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Lace, a Norway-headquartered chipmaking equipment startup which is backed by Microsoft, has raised $40 million in funding to further develop a technology that could enable significant advances in semiconductor design and manufacturing, the company said on Monday.
A new lithium refining method uses electrochemistry to cut waste and energy use, easing a key bottleneck for electric vehicles.
Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.
"85 million US packages arrived damaged in 2024, a 30% increase. BackOps deploys AI agents that accelerate customer response times by 93% and automatically file 100% of eligible carrier claims."
The federal government has selected eight proposals to test electric aircraft across 26 states.
Explore 925+ failed startups and learn from $32.5B+ in burned venture capital. Discover why they failed, their market potential, and how to rebuild them.
Building in consumer hardware as a software engineer
The VC Corner is where founders stay ahead: sharp news, fundraising strategies, battle-tested playbooks, and the tools to grow. Click to read The VC Corner, by Ruben Dominguez, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Find Inc. is a Tokyo-based startup that provides a cloud service dedicated to lost items.
A step-by-step path to validate your idea fast by defining the problem, testing assumptions, prototyping the critical flow, and shaping a focused MVP you can learn from.
At a school with a basketball-themed curriculum, students were “dreaming big.” But could they find a buyer?
As an elementary school principal, a feared software tycoon, a genial recluse, and a technology zealot determined to redefine childhood for mankind, J
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Can microfactories solve prefab's economic problem by inverting the factory model?
Results of a 20-year-old curiosity now form the basis of Tulum, a startup that has attracted significant investor attention.
Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever
How do you spot the wrong customer before they burn your roadmap? First Round Partner Meka Asonye digs into how now-massively successful startups cracked the code.
The startup emerged from stealth with a goal of extending the range of EVs while also eliminating fossil fuels from home heating.
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
The U.S. doesn't currently refine cobalt, a valuable material in a number of goods and products. This startup wants to change that.
Levels founder & CEO Sam Corcos shares his detailed time-tracking data across 5 years of startup growth
“Launch has generally been more of a cost center than a profit center.”…
The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams - ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
Boom Supersonic is an aerospace startup trying to build a supersonic airliner.
Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore shares his tools for quashing biases in pursuit of the truth at every stage of company building.
Personal writing and other things by Nabeel Qureshi.
At Robinhood’s first annual Hood Summit in Miami, Sherwood Media’s Editor-in-Chief Joshua Topolosky sat down with Rebecca Kacaba, CEO and cofounder...
Form Energy uses iron-air technology to store energy far longer than a lithium-ion battery can.
When the private equity firm Carlyle bought Beautycounter, the skin care brand that people sold at kitchen tables, everything changed.
“For our base design, we’re designing around return to launch site propulsive landing.”…
There is such a thing as a free lunch
〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Most folks dream of being entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my first layoff ... Read more
After selling to the Carlyle Group, the brand went from $1 billion to broke. Inside its rise and fall—and possible rise again.
A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued that it will be cheaper to build buildings with stone than with steel or concrete within the next 10 years.
Funding round was led by SkyLake Equity Partners
Anna Binder, Asana's Head of People and the company's first HR hire, shares her step-by-step approach to intentionally building the company culture.
The Coat Hinger is available for 30 days on Kickstarter! Go go go!! https://kickstarter.com/projects/simonegiertz/coat-hingers-foldable-coat-hangers Thank you so much for supporting my creative whims throughout the years. Can you believe it's been almost a decade?!
In 2022 and 2023, US IPOs hit decade lows after the record high of 2021. Now, in 2024, will the IPO window reopen? In this episode, we revisit a conversation with Jeff Jordan, former CEO of OpenTable, and J.D. Moriarty, the former Head Managing Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets at Bank of America...
A novel technique called Underground Gravity Energy Storage turns decommissioned mines into long-term energy storage solutions, thereby supporting the sustainable energy transition.
The founders of Pilot have started three times over, starting with Ksplice (sold to Oracle in 2011) and then Zulip (acquired by Dropbox in 2014).
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition
Investors have historically been skeptical of green hydrogen. High production costs, expensive infrastructure builds, competition with batteries and
What successful entrepreneurs have in common.
A new prototype compatible with a wide range of materials could grab a continuous supply of renewable energy from the air.
Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes
Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower.
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hello! My name is Evgenia, and I am the founder of Woolstock . Our company is engaged in various types of yarns: for hand knitting, machine knitting, knitting accessories, and finished yarn products. By working closely with customers, w...
Vaysh Kewada, CEO and Co-Founder of Salience Labs, advances AI by circumventing finite processing power with a revolutionary new chip design.
Discover the 'four-horse race' among leading manufacturers to decarbonized steel their operations. Explore the strategies and technologies.
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?I am Salman Shahid, a digital marketing expert and the founder of OXO Packaging. We are a custom packaging manufacturer for small to medium-scale businesses across the USA and Australia. At OXO Packaging, we provide packaging solutions ...
The things you need to know and the things you can ignore, at the early stage of your company’s journey.
Methodologies for understanding and measuring marketplace liquidity
Setting a rate can be a minefield for folks navigating an industry alone.
This article was initially published on Lago's blog, an open-source billing API, and was ranked #1 on...
Why do companies that were once the face of the anti-establishment startup world inexorably become the very sort of business that they were built to destroy?
We’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one. This puts founders at a significant disadvantage because VCs see term sheets all the time and know what to expect. Because we’ve invested in so many founders over the years and have seen hundreds of Series A term sheets, we know what “good” looks like. We work with our founders to understand where term
During the pandemic, Quinn Miller quit his sales job to start a vending machine side hustle. Today, his business brings in $30,000 a month, and he only has to work six hours a week on it. He shares how he got started.
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups - kuchin/awesome-cto
Few things are more liberating or intoxicating than controlling your own fate.
Jianmin “Jamie” Tan, PhD ’90
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
Why does strategy tend to stall when the rubber hits the road? Nate Stewart, Chief Product Officer of Cockroach Labs, shares an essential guide for creating a resilient strategy that’s still standing next year.
530 votes, 63 comments. My co-founder and I, a senior Amazon research scientist and AWS SDE respectively, launched Marqo a little over a week ago - a…
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The Flexport CEO on why it takes so long for your package to arrive.
There are a few cloud kitchen restaurants that deliver food that is so shit that I want to know which other brands are being run from the same kitchen so that I can avoid them all.
Plus! Watercooler Shows; Smart Thermostats; Substitutes and Complements; Monetization; Apple Ads; Diff Jobs
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It’d be much cheaper than lithium battery storage.
We work with our NFX Guild on this mental model for greatness from day 1. Now, we are sharing it with the rest of the startup community.
Pinky Cole's Slutty Vegan brand has grown from an Atlanta-based restaurant chain to burgeoning national brand — and she's just getting started.
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?My name is Brian McEuen, and I'm the founder of On Brand. We help guys shop for clothes online by curating personalized selections as if they were walking into their very own store. We're like Spotify for clothes! Another way to put it:...
Google is promoting the growth of open source tools for designing semis. The science fiction version of this story leads to everyone designing chips, the reality is going to be much narrower, but s…
The most significant bottleneck in the adoption of healthcare technology to date has been distribution. Over the last decade, generations of digital health companies have struggled to reach escape velocity—not because their products and services weren’t transformative, but because they failed to find an executable path for sustainable distribution and value capture. Some of that...
Though the industry is called venture capital, the goal of a VC isn’t to maximize every risk. Instead, we try to understand all the risks a business might face and weigh those risks with the reward - the exit. Here are the major risks that I typically review when a startup pitches. Market timing risk - Is now the right time for the business? It’s often hard to evaluate this risk, but nevertheless, it’s an important consideration.
Many startups scramble to create a "minimum viable product," or MVP, to get a version of their product to market quickly for testing. It’s a great way to cost-effectively test a website or app with real users. But be careful, if your MVP is too minimalist, it could torpedo your company's future.
A close look at the costs that go into running Cushion and the reasons why we use specific services.
I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by F’ing up at my first company.
Hubstaff founder Dave Nevogt shares how to test your startup idea by analyzing model, market and concept.
Building a two-sided market is probably the hardest thing you can build as an entrepreneur. It's so hard that a few weeks ago, I organized a Marketplace
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Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
A few weeks ago, we shared some key startup metrics (16 of them, to be exact) that help investors gauge the health of a business when investing in it. But to repeat ourselves for a moment: Good metrics aren’t just about raising money from VCs … they’re about running the business in a way where...
It’s no secret that investors don’t like hardware businesses. Despite the eternal frustration of startup founders, investor distaste in physical product businesses is actually entirely logical. It’s nearly impossible to build a venture-scale business by selling dumb plastic parts at a 30% gross marg
In response to yesterday’s post on management design patterns, many readers asked for examples of best practices. So I’m going to write about the management best practices I have been taught and I have observed in startups. This is the first post of that series. The first management technique is called Situational Management, one that my wife, a terrific manager at Google, taught me. A manager’s most important function in a startup is to motivate employees to accomplish the business’s goal.
There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in the past four years. If you’re starting a company, I hope you have an easier path.
Two proven sales experts on how to build a process and team from the ground up to consistently boost revenue month over month.
Goods versus Services: The next trillion dollar opportunity Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but less so for services. In this essay, we argue that a breakthrough is on its way: The first phase of the internet has been...
We're funding too many unsustainable companies.
I’m a startup product growth guy with a social gaming background. I currently work as VP of Growth at Relcy, a mobile search engine. A few companies I’ve worked with on growth in the past (HIRED $702…
There's lots written about how you should build software, but few concrete examples of the messy reality as implemented by startups. Here's our process.
During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the typ…
The “unreasonable effectiveness” of data for machine-learning applications has been widely debated over the years (see here, here and…
Culture isn’t about whether you’re a startup or a Fortune 500 giant. It’s about values and mindset. It’s about how you approach the decisions you make.
Apologies in advance: If you’re fluent in the language of accounting, please skip to the bonus Verizon iPhone feature at the end. What I’m about to describe will strike you as oversimplified and…
We’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one. This puts founders at a significant disadvantage because VCs see term sheets all the time and know what to expect. Because we’ve invested in so many founders over the years and have seen hundreds of Series A term sheets, we know what “good” looks like. We work with our founders to understand where term
We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company. Sometimes, however, the metrics may not be the best gauge of what’s actually happening in the...
What happens on the other side of the acquisition doesn't get much startup press
I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a cu…
I found a great domain name for sale on @undeveloped. Check it out!
In the Creative Founder, students are paired semi-randomly, and then spend a semester trying to get to product-market fit. I always start them with market selection. A market has three key elements…
Plus: Hydrogen pipelines, Advanced Market Commitments, and what made solar energy cheap
CDBaby* is an online distributor of independent music. Founded by well-known entrepreneur Derek Sivers, the service became a huge hit with independent
Dyson almost launched a robot vacuum. Back in 2001, after three years in development. Its first effort, shown to the British public in London looked nothing (and we mean nothing) like the eventual 360 Eye unveiled today. Sixteen years is a long time in tech. The DC06, as it was called, never made it past home-trial stages in 2012 -- apparently too pricey and heavy. Between then and now, technology got better. A lot better. At the Tokyo launch of its new robot vacuum, Sir James Dyson himself, told us how it all came together, and why it's not his native UK, but Japan, that'll get to buy it first.
With this many ideas to choose from, you have no excuse not to get started today with your own service business.
There’s a widespread belief among founders that venture capital is a precursor to success. VC is a common denominator of the most successful tech startups, but it isn't a prerequisite. To help illustrate this, here are 35 companies that started with a few thousand dollars, or even just sweat equity, and went on to become exemplars of what I call “efficient entrepreneurship.”
How we're using technology and automation to turn high-quality leads into product demos for our business development team.
“Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness . . . happiness when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.” - Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose Disclaimer: This article’s sole purpose is to address the core principles of advertising in a new and edgy way. This is not for the faint of heart or those highly sensitive to socially charged public issues. So suck it up and buckle up. You’re about to be taken to school (of hard knocks). Class is now in session.
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There was a time when eating out of Cup Noodle’s iconic packaging exuded cosmopolitanism.
1K votes, 152 comments. I wrote the below post after we launched our 30th product, just to try to make a note to self on whether any early signs gave…
A century later, Nikola Tesla’s dream comes true
“ By the law of averages, if you reach four decades of work experience, then you know what it was like to be disrupted both personally and as a business.”
Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.
Zapier has 3M+ users and generates $125M in ARR. At a $5B valuation, its fast-growing horizontal platform is unable to meet the demands of all of its customers. The increase of underserved Zapier customers presents an opportunity.
Before joining Wave four years ago, I spoke to a former employee about his experience. He said something that has stayed in my memory ever since: “Wave is really good at execution, so by working at Wave, you’ll learn how to execute very well.” Now that I’ve been here a while, I thought it would be good to write down what really good execution actually looks like in practice and the counterintuitive lessons I’ve learned along the way.
From Stripe to Notion, Cristina Cordova has worked on some of the biggest products in tech. She shares tactical tidbits on what she’s learned about about scaling companies and shaping your career.
Get ready to fly electric by 2026. Leading airlines are already onboard with the technology and are making plans.
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
Stefany Allaire has carved a niche in small-batch, retro-inspired computers
I used to be very anti-advertising. Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads.
Some of the qualities that make meat "meaty" are hard to reproduce with plant-based alternatives. Should we be focusing on replicating them – or trying to make new, tasty alternatives?
Decentralizing freight transport and distribution can provide flexibility and increased efficiency, getting cargo closer to where it needs to go in a more timely manner while taking stress off of overloaded ports.
Finding green energy when the winds are calm and the skies are cloudy has been a challenge. Storing it in giant concrete blocks could be the answer.
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hello, my name is Thomas Bordier and with a few partners, we took over a dying B2B marketplace in 2003: Exapro. Today, our business is booming and we even acquired a competitor a couple of years back: Kitmondo. We help buyers and seller...
Buy and sell SaaS startups in as little as 90 days. 500k+ qualified buyers, 1,000s of vetted listings. M&A advisory, legal help, escrow, and more. Join now.
Helium is a critical—and finite—resource. The future of our most indispensable technologies depends on a new supply.
Every company makes decisions based on the highest paid person's opinion. It turns out it's just a hypothesis. Here's how to tame it.
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.
I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way...
There are some features in any architecture that are essential, foundational, and non-negotiable. Right up to the moment that some clever architect shows
Check the requirements, book the viewing, let yourself in, and submit your application, all without emails or phone tag.
An open letter from a former Facebook and VMware engineering executive on how startups can best structure their release processes.
The technology needed to fulfill orders is costly for stores, and the workers who pick items off the shelves often feel the pressure of being tracked.
It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally
Presented by Robert Beachler, VP of Product, Untether AI. Traditional processor architectures are failing to keep up with the exploding compute demands of AI workloads. They are limited by the power-hungry weight-fetch of von Neumann architectures and limitations of transistor and frequency scaling. At-memory computation places compute elements directly in the memory array, providing reduced power consumption and increased throughput due to the massive parallelism and bandwidth provided by the architecture. This presentation introduces a new class of non-von Neumann compute designed to meet these AI demands. The Linley Fall Processor Conference featured technical presentations addressing processors and IP cores for AI applications, embedded, data center, automotive, and communications. Session topic included AI in Edge Devices, Vector-Processing Cores, Advancing Cloud AI, The New Infrastructure Edge, Heterogenous Computing, SoC Design, In-Memory Compute, and Security. Proceedings from the event are available for download. https://www.linleygroup.com/events/proc_register.php?num=49
Want to get your cold email to investors opened and read? Learn from the tips of some of the top VC investors.
Entrepreneurs ask themselves "Is my product meh?" when they fear making a fool of themselves. Some objectives questions to ask yourself.
Vestiaire Collective announced a new funding round. The company has raised $216 million, or €178 million — it has reached a valuation above $1 billion,
The marketplace revolution is still just beginning and the enterprise gateway is the newest type of marketplace.
One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued.
The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.
I learned from bosses & peers, including some famous peeps like Reed Hastings, Patty McCord, and Dan Rosensweig. But mainly I learned by doing, supercharged by feedback from many "Friends of Gib."
The inception of Google’s effort to build its own AI chips is quite well known by now but in the interests of review, we’ll note that as early 2013 the
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug homepage. Provides safe, affordable medicine or medication with transparent low prices.
Apoorva Mehta’s grocery delivery app is now an essential—and booming—business. Now the 34-year-old billionaire has to show he can outfox Bezos, dodge an avalanche of new competitors and calm his rebellious workers and restless partners.
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In a SPAC IPO, a shell company goes public with a pledge to investors that it will eventually become a traditional company via acquisition.
When good ideas make bad business
Some careers can be made on the back of a single, wonderful idea. We take a look at what that looks like, through Bill Gurley's VC career.
"I don’t need a pair of Nikes. I need a 401(k)" -- and other lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.
The pandemic has boosted interest in vending machine ownership. We surveyed 20+ operators to find out how much they make.
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?I'm Abhishek A Agrawal and I'm the founder of Integrately and CompanyHub. Our first product was CompanyHub CRM - the world's easiest CRM. Most salespeople hate using CRMs because they are complex and time-consuming. CompanyHub is as eas...
How are individual entrepreneurs (solopreneurs) building multi-million dollar companies? What can we learn from their stories? Read this report to find out.
Even before the pandemic, it had started to unravel. What happens now that no one has a reason to dress up?
@mmcgrana: Patio11’s Law: The software economy is bigger than you think, even when you take into account Patio11’s Law.1 A few years ago, I woke up in Sunriver, OR, and went to make coffee. The house had one of those bed-and-breakfast-type coffee trays. Drip machine. A stack
It's been said that ideas don't matter, and that only execution does. I wholeheartedly disagree. You need both to succeed, but you can only get so good...
You probably think startups have nothing in common with a classical Chinese dance performance. You’re wrong.
Matt Meyers spent two decades at Weyerhaeuser dealing with product engineering, manufacturing, software engineering, product development, sales and
Hi! My name is Gerald Diaz. I’m a physician and co-founder of GrepMed.com. GrepMed is an image-based medical reference platform that leverages images as an alternative to traditional text-based medical resources. We’re trying to make it easier for doctors and other clinicians to fi...
Canva are one of Australia's most successfull startups. In this case study we analyse how they use digital channels to attract and acquire new users
Most of the times, startup don't work. At some point it may make sense to either (1) give up on your original product and to sell the company, (2) shut down what you are doing and return money to investors, or (3) to pivot. You can read more on making the decision to give up in a future article. This post focuses on pivoting for small, early stage companies (e.g. 10 or fewer people).
Beverly Pennington was a Pinterest-perfect entrepreneur whose patchwork quilts—made from people’s most treasured T-shirts—found thousands of devotees all over the country. But when the quilts stopped coming, leaving the shirts in limbo, her customers pieced together a plan to fight back.
Digging into "Two and Twenty" & VC compensation
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hello! My name is Caitlin Pyle, and I start Proofread Anywhere back in 2014. I help proofreaders earn extra income from anywhere in the world… even if you’re starting from scratch! I have two different courses: Transcript Proofreading, ...
I joked the other day that some of the best fairytales are written in Excel. While there isn’t a single magic number or set formula, understanding industry benchmarks can be really helpful to…
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?My name is Gonzalo and with my partner Gala, we run a business called Sheedo. Our main product is a paper made out of waste cotton from the clothing industry, so we don’t cut trees or use toxic chemicals in our production line. But what...
The tech stack of Listen Notes, the best podcast search engine and database.
An MIT Sloan Ph.D. candidate discovered what turned skilled hobbyists into entrepreneurs.
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...
The “traditional” user onboarding flows and walkthroughs are dead. Learn about the next era of user onboarding and how to adapt to the changes in your org.
This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass. Every week, I answer a reader’s question.
StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business.
Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth.
So far, most large investments in energy storage have gone to companies building lithium-ion batteries. SoftBank's newest bet changes that.
“We believe true equality is when spending more can’t buy you a better education.” – Duolingo founders When the language learning software company Rosetta Stone went public in 2009, they… Keep reading
Robert R. Taylor is a name you’ve probably never heard before. But this serial entrepreneur made his mark on the world of business by coming up with several products you are almost certainly very familiar with. Today we’re going to talk about, on the surface, the most boring of those- liquid hand soap. Something you can thank Mr. Taylor and [...]
I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list.
CMU and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to create an autonomous trauma care system that fits in a backpack — or, as shown here, a folded stretcher.
Your phone increasingly knows what you’re taking a picture of. And which apps you have installed. So…
Create strong culture, stay laser-focused on problems, and set wildly ambitious goals
There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has…
A change starts with a story.
Is being an entrepreneur really necessary for success? Here's why you should ignore the hype and how to pick your career path instead.
Nine interesting markets to track in 2019.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is winning the space race. His secret to success lay in the iterative development process, borrowed straight from the software industry.
At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.
A discussion of the 9 core operating principles that world class companies tend to embrace, by NFX Managing Partner James Currier.
Recently, a founder asked to chat with me about SEO. During our call, the founder - whose startup is backed by a top-tier VC - said to me “I assume that you acquired your first users through paid marketing.” Really? Is this an assumption nowadays? Since we’ve raised money
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hi there! I’m Leslie, the founder of Almond Clear, a line of skin care products that are formulated with mandelic (almond) acid (MA). MA is an amazing remedy for a range of skin concerns, from clearing up acne and folliculitis, to decre...
PopSockets opted not to be a direct vendor to Amazon. Instead, it chose one major reseller to represent it on the marketplace. But, Amazon would not allow it. So, PopSockets walked away.
All things being equal, speed will determine whether your company succeeds or not. Here's how to make it core to your culture.
Frustrated with the perverse incentives of fast growth, founders are criticizing the investment model that built the tech industry as we know it.
Explore a glimpse into how M. Seibel thinks about leadership attributes and some contrarian views that may be at the heart of how he picks great companies.
Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?My name is Ross Lohr, and I’m a co-founder of Project Repat. We make it easy and affordable for customers to turn their memorable t-shirts into a one of a kind, custom t-shirt quilt backed with cozy fleece. People buy quilts from Project Re...
On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting…
It's not a trick question: You can make a battery out of concrete by storing gravitational potential energy.
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Maciej Cegłowski found fans where they were, and won their hearts
Timehop's 15-person team ended up creating its own ad server. A year and a half later, CPMs have grown from $2 to $28.
Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?My name is Raymond Furgason, and I am the Creator and Founder of Carbage Can. The Carbage Can is a car trash can. It’s so easy to gather common trash in your vehicle - tissues, food wrappers, receipts, coffee cups… the list is endless. We’r...
An “operating system” for power could double the efficiency of the grid.
I don’t think anyone would disagree that building a successful hardware business has quite literally many more moving parts than software.
A millennial entrepreneur hires from inmates and homeless people who struggle to find work even in a strong economy.
Entrepreneurship is an increasingly core component of commercial work, and one for which students in highly technical fields are ill-prepared. Blended entrepreneurial programs (BEPs) are attempting to answer this need by merging university-level entrepreneurial education with discipline-focused degrees in STEAM fields. It hasn’t been easy. STEAM students often show a gravitation toward certainty and a low tolerance for risk — personal characteristics at odds with those traditionally associated with entrepreneurs.
We closed Renard down more than nine months ago, but every night (and often early in the morning), first thing after waking up, I lie there and write the story of my failure over, and over and over again.
Accounting, bookkeeping, and tax tips to help you understand your small business finances.
The flight tested the vehicle's landing gear and roll damper for improved handling.
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